Working Effectively With the Modern Shell

Talk @ the Tampere Coding Sauna, May 2023.

2023-05-05T11:37:03+03:00

These slides live at https://andrew-quinn.me/modern-shell-slidy.html

What I hope you leave with

  1. Use fzf
  2. Use zsh (minimum)
  3. Learn (some) vi
  4. tldr >>= gpt >>= man

who am i

why the shell?

on speed

let’s talk about fzf

the rustification of tools

let’s talk about vi

why optimize for resources?

let’s talk about zsh

zsh + oh-my-zsh

starship

why optimize for beauty and fun?